**Legend**

Xenia headed out after her brother who seemed to be so altered. Catching up with Josiah as he was about to enter their rooms, "Josiah," she pleaded, "wait up, talk to me."

"What's up baby girl?" he asked happily, opening the door.

"Besides the fact that you've seem to grow another foot?" she asked exaggeratingly.

"Oh yea, that…" he acknowledged, smiling down at her, "I phased."

"Well, I know that. What happened out there?" Xen prodded hoping up onto her bed.

"Everything and nothing. Dad shared some stories with me… its weird having people in your head… well voices that aren't yours, Xeni…" he said sitting down next to her. "Everything seemed to happen at once, when it began to happen that is…"

Xenia noticed all of his changes. His voice was deeper, he was so much bigger… like he was a different person… She took one of his hands examining it. They seemed to be the hands of a stranger... she placed her hand in his palm showing the difference in size… the boy who was her brother had truly changed…

"What was phasing like?" she asked quietly tracing his palm.

"Weird… It was like I was there and then I wasn't, but I hadn't gone anywhere," he said watching her finger move over the lines in his palms. "My body seemed to disappear even from myself…"

"Disappear?" she asked looking up into his face, placing his hand back on his lap.

"Yeah, it was like he turned into a ghost," Jake said from the doorway.

"Hi daddy!" Xenia said jumping up from the bed, bounding over to him for a hug.

"Hi baby," he said embracing her warmly and putting her back down. "I've never seen anything like Josiah before," he said sitting on the bed cross legged with his children. "This will make a great campfire story."

Silence hung in the air after his words as Xenia looked between her father and her brother. Her eyes seemed sort of distant, lost in thought. "That's it daddy," Xenia said, her expression lifting.

"What's it sweetheart?" Jake asked grabbing a pillow.

"Remember the old stories…that the elders tell around the fire?"

"Well of course I know them… but how do you?" he asked puzzled.

"I saw it in your head," she said like that was a silly question.

"But how, I wasn't thinking about it?"

Xenia shrugged her shoulders and continued, "I don't know, but listen… remember the old spirit warriors?"

"You mean before we were wolves…" Jake asked, beginning to piece together her meaning.

"The what?" Josiah asked perplexed.

"Spirit Warriors." Jake repeated.

"Tell the story daddy," Xenia pleaded moving her position around to face her father.

Jake heaved a soft sigh after looking at his daughter's pleading eyes. "Well, okay…" he said.

"A long time ago, before we had the magic of changing into wolves in our blood, we had the magic of shifting into spirit form in order to protect our lands and our people. Those with the ability would fend off our enemies by transforming into spirits and driving away the evil by way of the winds, the animals, or storms, whatever we could use. It was however impossible to see them or speak with them in their spirit form, but they could communicate with each other in spirit form and with the animals.

"One day a plot was hatched to overthrow a Chieftain, Chief Taha Aki by another spirit warrior, Utlapa. This treacherous plan was the catalyst for how we began transformation into wolves.

"The way it had been in the beginning, since the first histories, a spirit warrior would leave his body and transform into a spirit," Jake explained, "Taha Aki's body was stolen by Utlapa and the traitor took the chief's place leaving Taha Aki to roam the countryside bodiless and in lonely agony wandering in the disorienting, torturous nothingness. Taking the true chief's place, he barred the crossing over into the spirit realm in fear of the truth being discovered.

"In time the Spirit Chief, halfway driven to madness, used a beautiful, large wolf that'd been following him and who was obedient to him allowed the chief to meld his mind with his making his spirit self enter the body of the wolf. Taha Aki then returned to the tribe as the wolf. Taha Aki didn't attack his warriors that came to defend the tribe against the giant wolf, and the people realized the animal was special. It was then that Yut, a man that the true chief had had trusted, decided to try to communicate with the wolf and broke the law, entering into the spirit realm. Taha Aki left the wolf and immediately Yut knew the truth, but it was to no avail. Utlapa found out and killed Yut the moment he re-entered his body taking the truth with him to the afterlife.

"This outrage infuriated Taha Aki, as he witnessed the whole thing, for he loved Yut. He felt a rage he had never known before because of the oppression the people suffered, for Utlapa had betrayed the trust of the people. Beyond that, in taking the chief's place he took the chief's wife and then dealt treacherously with her by taking younger wives while she was still living, while assuming privileges that were not his to take.

"Taha Aki had meant to join back to the wolf and destroy Utlapa, but the emotion he felt was too great for the wolf to carry and before the eyes of all, he transformed – Into a man. It wasn't his old body, but a younger, more powerful person, a person who was the representation of his spirit self."

Jake seemed to return from the trance like state of retelling the history, "The chief returned, taking his true place among the people, and killed Utlapa for his treachery. One of the only things that remained from Utlapa's short rule was the forbidding of anyone to transform into spirits, because the idea of stealing a life was introduced… Since then, the gift has been lost."

Josiah stared at his father realizing the meaning of his story, "You think I vanished into a spirit?" he asked at last looking at both Xenia and his father Jacob.

"Isn't it possible?" Xenia asked looking between the pairs of eyes.

Scratching the back of his neck, Jake considered the possibility… "I guess it's in the realm of feasible, I mean, nothing is impossible…But your body didn't stay. The old spirit warriors would leave their bodies."

"Neither am I exactly the same as they were then," Josiah interjected, beginning to feel the excitement of the prospect of having such a gift that was linked with the heritage of his father. "But where does the lightning fit in?"

"Lightning?" Xeni asked then ascertained his meaning immediately. "Awesome!" she exclaimed, "Can I see you do it?" she asked, her eyes sparkling.

"Dad?" Josiah asked not sure about the response.

"Well, I don't see why not..." Jake mused, "Practice makes perfect… I'll go with you."

Instantly they were all off the bed and out the door.

"Where are you all off to?" Nessie said when they passed her waddling with Rosalie down the hall.

"Josiah's going to show me his new trick," Xenia said happily.

"Have fun," she said with a smile and a slight grimace.

"What's the matter baby?" Jake asked immediately worried, rushing to her side.

"Oh, nothing, your new daughter is just growing that's all."

Jake dropped to his knees. After lifting Nessie's cotton shirt revealing her even larger stomach, he pressed his face to her skin. "Hello my little Love," Jake said smiling.

Nessie looked down at Jake's head then toward her children who were already so huge and shook her head. "You guys are a trip…" she said mainly to her son who was looking her in the eye.

"You are supposed to be babies!" she sighed, "Oh well, no matter. It's not like I stayed a baby either… but damn, I didn't grow that fast."

"Mother, language," Xenia chided.

"Well you all go along," she said leaning into Rosalie, "Auntie is going to run me a hot bath and read to me and the baby."

"Are you sure you're alright?" Jake asked still preoccupied as he stood up.

"I'm fine, go spend time with the children," she smiled, "just as long as you bring them back to me," she said leaning over to kiss her son.

"I love you Si," she said looking into his eyes.

"Si?" he asked repeating the nickname that was strange to his ears.

"Yea… 'Si'. I've been playing with it in my head… don't you like it?"

"I like anything that comes from you, momma," he said kissing her cheek in return.

"Ok, now go ahead darling, I'll see you when you come back…" she promised.

Rosalie and Nessie headed toward Rosalie and Emmett's room while Jake and his kids went out into the woods again.

"Can you believe how big he is?" Ness asked Rose.

"No, I can't… it's almost like he's a different person," she said helping Ness to a comfortable rocking chair.

"So have you considered what the Count said?" Ness asked setting her weight in the chair.

"Yea!" Emmett cried from the couch where he was laying reading a book.

"Hey Em, what's up?" Ness said smiling.

"Are you really going to carry a baby for us?" He asked jumping up over the back of the couch, softly landing at Nessie's feet in a single move.

"Do you want me to?" she asked eyeing both of them.

Hope lit up Rosalie's face, but Emmett answered, "That would be amazing!"

"Aren't you afraid of the procedure?" Renesmee asked Rosalie who still hadn't spoken.

Rose's hesitation was infinitesimal, "No… I would give my life to have a child," she whispered.

"Well, okay then, I guess we're on," Nessie smiled. "You still have to name this baby though, she's waiting."

Rose smiled and kneeled at Nessie's feet hugging her gently. "I love you forever anyway, but now there is nothing I could ever do to show you how much you mean to me Renesmee… I love you so much…"

"Will you still love me as much when you have a baby of your own?" she asked with a sheepish smile.

"Of course, my darling girl, you were the first one," she said with a pained look that would have produced tears if she weren't frozen in her glory. "I was thinking Jasmine, for your daughter," she said with a broken smile.

"That's lovely," Nessie said clapping her hands, "I love it." Cradling her baby she asked, "Do you like it baby, do you want to be called Jasmine?"

The three stared at Nessie's stomach in shock as the baby visibly moved under Nessie's skin.

"Wow, that's freaky," Emmett said blankly, earning a smack in the shoulder from Rose.

"No, what's freaky is how fast my son has grown in the past twenty-four hours," Ness muttered.

"What?" Emmett asked, clearly out of the loop. The last time he'd seen him he was big, but nobody really said much. Those kids had grown up fast from day one…

"He phased for the first time," Rosalie informed him, "now he's huge…"

"Big enough for a fight?" Emmett asked wiggling his eyebrows.

Rose rolled her eyes, while Nessie smiled, "actually you probably should wrestle with him… he could use some good, strong male influence to help Jake mold him…" Nessie mused.

"Yeah, they're out in the woods now… you should go catch up with them… Josiah is going to phase for Xeni." Rose suggested from the bathroom where she was running a bath.

"Is she tryin' to get rid of me?" Emmett asked Ness with a smirk.

"Perhaps," she replied with a lifted brow.

"No, try definitely. I'm pampering Ness. Get out." Rosalie said with a grin reappearing in the room.

"Fine, fine, fat mama, I'm goin'," he said pulling her around her waist kissing her first. Nessie's eyes dropped and a smile seemed faint across her lips.

"I'm may grab a grizzly while I'm out," he said kissing Ness on the cheek then disappeared from the room.

A/N: BTW in case you were wondering, Josiah's nickname 'Si', is pronounced like 'sigh'.

I didn't hear alot from you guys on the last chapter. Hope it didn't suck. lol.